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[cyman_t]

Hi there, here is my rendition of Blue Moon.I’m not so satisfied with one of the first pull-offs at the very beginning yet that’s the best take I was able to make so far.

Feedback for improvement are welcome 🙂

[leb397]

@brettboy loved the ending 😁👻👻👻

[Andrew]

@karenj – Very nicely played and I love the uke!

@cyman_t – For the P/Os and slides, I’m not hearing a lot of them being played with the long/short swung 8th feel. I think that’s what you’re noticing. Try playing them as regular notes, swung, before adding in the technique. Also, try playing along with Steven in the tab player. His playing will act as a guide to help you correct those rhythms.

Other than that, everything else sounds great 🙂

[cyman_t]

Thanks @Andrew, I’ll try your suggestion. This would be a good occasion to really work on the swung rhythm, which I haven’t done yet.
Also, I feel puzzled with how this ended here: my intention was to share it in the “Showcase your playing” section of the forum. So one question: did I post it here by inadvertence or did you move this post into this month’s challenge’s section?

[Andrew]

I moved it since it’s a tune in this month’s challenge. The feedback can be helpful to others who are working on this tune 🙂

[cyman_t]

Aaah OK, I was so sure I posted it in the section I chose, that it raised a serious doubt :-).
And I get why you moved it 🙂
Thanks for the clarification.

[marianne]

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I went for Spooky, Scary Skeletons but decided to play it on the baritone and adapted it a little for low G.

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[katazumiri]

Hello everyone!

And here’s my version of “Spooky scary skeletons”

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Have a nice day! 🦴🎃🦴

[Andrew]

@marianne – Sounds great on baritone, Marianne! Nice adaptation 🙂

@katazumiri – I loved it! This might be my fav band arr. of yours to date 💀

[marianne]

Thanks @Andrew 🙂

[The_Bumble_Bard]

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Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooa boy! This is unheard of! I actually managed to scrape something together… early?!??!?!?! Not on the last day of the challenge?! Yass.

Well, I’m considering this my first take and hopefully can attempt a better version of this, but it does contain all the notes of the tune, lol. Plus, some extra. 😉

I have to thank Andrew (for pointing me in the right direction) and Sammy very much so because I knew I wanted to play the piano part of his beautiful tune, Spøgelser, along with the lovely uke part, but thought I would have to figure out the piano by ear. Instead, after contacting Sammy, he very graciously wrote out the entire piano part for me (since he had lost the music due to… technology), which saved me a great deal of time and struggle!

So, I am incredibly grateful for that kindness! 🙂

The piano part I play includes the bass notes and the piano part.

That said, my timing / own recording skills leave a lot to be desired. I like each part separately, but I played the uke part too fast so I slowed that down to like 85% speed to match the piano. However, it still does not line up perfectly throughout. This is likely worsened by my tendency to play piano very rubato-esque. However however, I actually do love how the parts that lined up sound together! 🙂

I hope you enjoy it and I hope to get a better take! Also, will take some time to review some of the lovely work I’m sure my friends here have shared already!!

Thank you all SO much – including all the instructors here – for being so inspiring! And talented!

Here it be (hopefully this shares properly, lol):

P.S. Something else incredible (for me) is that the uke part was actually the very first take and the one I used for this! :O

[shmu88]

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Hello!

Loved the show Stranger Things and the music in it so I had to do this one!

Cheers!

Sam

[grannieannie]

@karenj, what a wild and crazy uke — that looks like so much fun!

@katazumiri, you’re a puppeteer, too! I had a good laugh at that — very clever.

@the_bumble_bard, you’re not down to the wire this month, and first take, too. We’ll done. Nice of Sammy to write out the piano part — confirms my belief that all ukulele instructors are just good people.

Thanks, Andrew, for all you do, and thanks to everyone who enters these challenges — what a lovely community.

[Andrew]

@The_Bumble_Bard – It sounds so beautiful, Rachael! That was very kind of Sammy to do too 🙂

@shmu88 – Awesome take Sam! 👏

@grannieannie – 🙂

[jedart]

Running out of time to get this nailed down, so here it is with a few mistakes. Stranger Things with some spooky FX courtesy of Stratus FX Pedal.

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